Warning notes from underground
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1425409,00.html
James Wood on how Conrad and Dostoevsky foresaw the roots of terrorism
Saturday February 26, 2005
The Guardian
The rulers have little time for literature. For them, poetry and
fiction, as in the old reviewer's joke, "fills a much-needed gap". When
American presidents are actually spotted with books, the things in
question are usually garish bricks of pounding prose, with subtitles
beginning "What" or "When" or "Why" ("Why America became the Greatest
Power on Earth," and so on). The last politician who admitted to
reading a novel was probably Chicago's Mayor Daley, and he famously
only conceded to having "looked into" the work of that city's most
famous son, Saul Bellow.
Joseph Conrad
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Dostoevsky
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